And, The Shield's won a fair amount of awards, but I still don’t know how Michael Chiklis doesn’t win in the dramatic/Emmy category. The guy is one of the greatest bada$$es I’ve seen on TV, especially when contrasted with The Commish...haha.

Tavon is back, shame it took them so long to bring him back into the fold, I always liked his character.

Can't wait to see where the Vic/Shane thing is going to end, my money is on Vic kills Shanes wife, Shane kills Vic, Ronnie kills Shane, Julian rapes Ronnie, Aceveda kills Julian and Dutch boy then strangles Aceveda whilst Claudette falls down some stairs breaking her neck. The series ends with Billings finding the suitcase with the 100k whilst smiling and so forth.

John-Locke wrote:Tavon is back, shame it took them so long to bring him back into the fold, I always liked his character.

Can't wait to see where the Vic/Shane thing is going to end, my money is on Vic kills Shanes wife, Shane kills Vic, Ronnie kills Shane, Julian rapes Ronnie, Aceveda kills Julian and Dutch boy then strangles Aceveda whilst Claudette falls down some stairs breaking her neck. The series ends with Billings finding the suitcase with the 100k whilst smiling and so forth.

What an ending!

I am, also, a Tavon fan. I hope he's around more this season fuckin' up some stuff for Shane.

I think this last episode cemented Vic's tragic fate. He'll either be killed by Shane shortly after he realizes the monster he created or he'll find himself all alone in the end (no partners, no family, no job, nothing). Either way, it's going to suck for Vic, I think. I can't imagine him coming out on top of things.

RogueScribner wrote:Either way, it's going to suck for Vic, I think. I can't imagine him coming out on top of things.

And if there's any real justice in this world, he really shouldn't. That's why I feel so strange about rooting for him.

It's strange how much suspense they can get out of just telephone calls and talking to each other on this show. How many bullets have been fired in the last few episodes, and yet how good have the last few episodes been?

I am an infrequent watcher of The Shield. I usually catch about four episodes a season and basically know whats going on. Caught last nights episode and it rocked my fucking socks off! Wow! I caught it on the replay at 11 pm, and was wired from it until about 2 am. Loved how it ended... Fed: "Do you know what you've done to me?", Vic: "I've done worse". I am so watching the ending... I bet Claudette has a freaking coronary.

the way vic flipped certainly seems to seal his fate. but as most of us have learned through seven seasons of this rivoting series nothing is what it seems. vic always finds a way out. maybe death is his only way out at this point.

although the confession was unbelievably intense, shane's story line kept me on edge this whole episode. it's excruciating. that opening was death, literally. is marta the best secondary character in the history of television or what? well, second best. we all know huggy bear was the best.

I finally saw the second to last episode last night when they reran it, and it was pretty amazing. Walton Goggings is great, but I think I get more out of Chiklis' performance. Seeing him going over everything in his head before he started to confess, just fantastic. And when she asks him "is that all?" after he says like two things, the "How much memory does that thing have" bit was great. I think that Vic will either be dead or alone at the series' end, and if he does die, it'll be by Ronnie's hand.

Everyone's ending was perfect, except Mackey's. True justice for him would have been nothing short of death. Shane's whole deal was horribly tragic, but it could have come out so more painful for all of them. I loved that note he wrote, I wish he could have finished it. I am SO glad that Dutch didn't die.

Heyoucantlaughatthat wrote:Everyone's ending was perfect, except Mackey's. True justice for him would have been nothing short of death. Shane's whole deal was horribly tragic, but it could have come out so more painful for all of them. I loved that note he wrote, I wish he could have finished it. I am SO glad that Dutch didn't die.

there are fates worse than death. chiklis' performance hammered that home for me. i agree with you on the rest — at least on principle. it goes deeper for me. i'm a freak.

The best part of the episode was that GUTWRENCHING phone call between Vic and Shane. I'm so happy Walton Goggins is getting his own show. I'm pretty sure that was the final straw for Shane. I should have seen the signs when he was acting all happy and tipping the clerk $60, but I was still shocked.

What's the worst thing you can do to Vic Mackey? Take away his team. Take away his badge. Take away his family. Parade his betrayal right in front of his face. And then make him work a menial desk job for 3 years or else go to prison. On the surface of it, it looks like Vic came out on top, but he really didn't. The only thing worse for him would be death.

The EW story was bullshit. Four major characters die? Whatevs. Though when Shane tipped that clerk I knew he wasn't long for this world, but I couldn't believe he'd actually do what he did. Fucking A.

This was a more than satisfactory end to the series. My only gripe is that they didn't show that serial killer kid getting nailed to the wall; that was kinda left up in the air.

As someone who picked up the series beginning with the pilot, I was more than satisfied with the finale. A series with the main protagonist painted in shades of grey shouldn't have ended with handcuffs, or a blaze of gunfire.

My only misgiving is that I'll have to find something to fill the void. I'll miss these well-played characters and the words coming from their mouths. There has always been something to look forward to for the past 8 or so years, but now what?

Thought I'd surely watch if they revisited this universe, in whatever form, I'd rather they didn't.

I picked up season 1 of this on DVD towards the end of december.I just got done watching the season 7 finale last night.It has rocked mine and my fiances socks off. Such a brilliant show, and then ending was ace.Scanned over the thread a bit, and noticed the same conflicted feelings of rooting for vic and the team, while still not being able to stomach the heinous things they had done.It was a total shock for the show to really hammer home just what a horrible human being he really was, and his punishment was superb.Pretty much delivered to limbo, but with hell much closer than heaven at either side.Either break his terms, and go to jail (more than likely dying in jail, or in the process of getting their), or reinvent himself as an office drone living saint. Cant see the latter happening. But his survival above all else is what matters to him. Powerful stuff.

Gonna really miss Dutch boy and the rest of the gang, and I was totally gutted for poor Ronnie. Not that he was clean himself, but he was nowhere near the monster Vic was.

Anyhoo, I loved it. So very glad that I picked up the first season on a whim not knowing too much about it (I was actually worried it was some sort of shitty CSI type show). Sure there was a fair amount of cheese, and convenience in some of the plotting, but only to keep the show speeding along. Enough to keep me grinning, and not rolling my eyes I guess.

And a funny thing happened, when the last ep finished, after chatting about it for a bit with the missus, we stuck the TV on, and their was the first ep of the first season starting a complete re run...... spoooky!

I know I missed the water-cooler shelf-life of this show by years (and years and years), but I just finished watching The Shield and felt it my duty to say that it had one of the best series finales ever.

Ribbons wrote:I know I missed the water-cooler shelf-life of this show by years (and years and years), but I just finished watching The Shield and felt it my duty to say that it had one of the best series finales ever.